Clod-crusher



(No Model) B. S. REED.

0LOD GRUSHBR. N0. 280,513.- Patented July 3, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EGBERI S. REED, OF VERSAILLES, OHIO.

CLOD-CRUSHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 280,513, dated July 3, 1883.

Application filed March 24, 1883.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, E. S. REED, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Versailles, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Olod-Orushers, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in clod-crushers; and it consists in the frame A, longitudinal journals B, spade-wheels D, cutting-wheels O, and rollers E and F, in combination, substantially as hereinafter more fully specified.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a section on the line rm, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 y, Fig. 1.

The axles B, whereon are rigidly secured the spade-wheels D, the cutting-wheels O, and the rollers E and F, have their hearings in the lateral ends of frame A, and as it may be de sirable in practice to change the position of the spade and cutting wheels with relation to the rollers E and F, which follow them, the transverse bars b of the frame are tongued and projected into sockets or grooves formed in the lateral harsh, and the parts are then secured or pinned together by means of removable wedges driven into the grooves or sockets, and the frame thus constructed may be readily taken apart andput together again for this purpose.

The series of spade-wheels D, having the radial spades, as shown, and the cutting-wheels (No model.)

C, having their peripheries beveled, as shown, are arranged on their axle alternately, and these two kinds of wheels cut the clods at right angles to each other, and the rollers E and F complete the clod-crushing.

The spade and cutting wheels may be made either of hollow cast metal or, when preferable, of wood, and when made of wood the cutting and spading parts thereof are covered with sheet or light cast metal.

. I am aware that it is not broadly new to employ a spurred roller in connection with an ordinary garden-roller for crushing c'lods.

I am also aware that rollers of varying size,

alternately arranged in a frame on the same axle, have been employed as clod-orushers, and that radial cutting-knives have also been employed mounted in a suitable frame for this purpose; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a clod-crusher, of the spade-wheels D and cutting-wheels O, mounted alternately on one and the same axle, and rollers E and F in the same frame, mounted alternately on one and the same axle in rear of the spade and cutting wheels, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EGBERT S. REED.

\Vitnesses:

W. O. BERRY, J AMES GooDALL. 

